A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species—including humans—are greater than originally thought, according to an ...

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Research into transcription factors deepen understanding of the 'language' of the genome, offering insights into human development.

An international team of researchers co-led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, have identified rules that tell cells how to fold DNA into the tightly packed, iconic X-shaped ...

The recent claim the long extinct dire wolf was resurrected made headlines around the world. But bioethicists and ecologists ...

Nature's selection of new traits through evolution is a powerful force. Corporations creating new species at the whim of ...

Florida stands on the precipice of becoming a national leader in medical research and innovation, and we are seizing this ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

A longstanding mystery in Parkinson’s disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that ...

William Stafford Noble, a Naperville native and professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, urges the ...

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to ...